anaheim-gazette 1924-08-07

Anaheim Gazette ESTABLISHED 1870 ISSUED EVERY THURSDAY Henry Kuchel, Editor and Proprietor SUBSCRIPTION PER YEAR ... $1.50 SIX MONTHS ... $1.00 THREE MONTHS ... $ .50 Entered at the Anaheim Postoffice as second-class matter PRE-COOLING FRUITS One of the greatest improvements of recent years in the handling of fresh fruits and berries for eastern shipments has been pre-cooling. By the use of this system fruit may be allowed to mature on the trees or vines, develop its full flavor, and then be shipped across the country and placed before the consumer in perfect condition. This is impossible where the fruit is loaded directly into the refrigerator cars, writes Charles F. Tucker in the Cultivator. The writer visited the pre-cooling plant at Mountain View, Santa Clara County, during the red raspberry and cherry season. He had a very superficial knowledge of pre-cooling but did know of its value and growing popularity in the state. As you would perhaps do on visiting the plant, he cornered the manager, J. A. Williams, and started explaining that busy man with questions. The berry growers of the mountain View district wished to extend their markets beyond California. That meant pre-cooling. No commercial company could be induced to build a plant, and the cooperative association did not care to shoulder the responsibility of placing the fruits and berries in a room through which a constant current of cold air circulated. They found that the temperature of the product could be quickly lowered to the desired point, a few degrees above freezing, thus arresting the activity of the bacteria which cause decay. The constant current of cold dry air also carried away any odors or undesirable gases thrown off by the fruit. Moreover, temperature and humidity were under perfect control. "The precooling idea, like many other good ideas, is very simple, yet it does for the fruit what no other plan of refrigeration will do. Like many other new ideas, this method of preparing fruits for distant markets has been slow in winning the confidence of those who would be benefited by it, in spite of its simplicity and proven worth. California farmers had either to accept this new method or lose a wide market for much of their perishable products. So in the last few years a number of pre-cooling plants have been built throughout the state. "Selection of fruit of the proper maturity, careful picking and handling, and prompt and thorough cooling are all essential for the successful transportation of perishable fruits to the Eastern markets. Elimination of green end over ripe fruit from the package is undoubtedly, the most important factor, or at least, it is the one most often neglected. Prompt and thorough cooling of all perishable fruit by the use of proper pre-cooling equipment also gives an added insurance against excessive ripening in transit. It should not be considered, however, that pre-cooling will offset inferior quality, careless packing or grading, or rough, handling from field to the plant. The last point should..." The berry growers of the mountain View district wished to extend their markets beyond California. That meant pre-cooling. No commercial company could be induced to build a plant, and the cooperative association did not care to shoulder the responsibility. S. in 1922 over 100 growers and local business men organized a commercial company, the Growers' Ice Pre-Cooling Plant, Inc., subscribed for $40,000 worth of capital stock at par, and completed the plant before the 1923 season. It is in no sense a marketing organization. Last year the plant pre-cooled and handled 200 cars of berries, fruits and vegetables, stored a quantity of pears and apricots for canning purposes and manufactured and sold nearly 1,300 tons of ice. It also paid a four percent dividend to the stockholders from the profits of the first year's operations. The plant must be enlarged before another season. Interesting facts, but the writer wished to hear Mr. Williams's views on pre-cooling—something about the development of this system. From Mr. Williams: "About the year 1900 experiments were begun in an attempt to find a means of cooling fruits and berries quickly, yet not freezing them, so that they could be shipped to distant markets and arrive in a fresh, salable condition. To load perishable fruit, warm from the fields directly to the refrigerator cars had proved unsatisfactory, as the heat of the fruit tended to keep the temperature of the car up to a point where decay could set in. "A similar condition existed when the warm fruit of midsummer was placed in an ordinary cold storage room. Too low a temperature would freeze some of it, so the cooling could not be hurried. Before all the fruit in the packed containers could be cooled to a uniform temperature of a few degrees above freezing, some of it would have started to decay. And such fruit goes to pieces as soon as it is released from cold storage. "The experimenters finally hit upon WHAT'S THE ANSWER? The New York Journal of Commerce publishes a table showing a decline in grain and flour exports, comparing the fiscal year ended June 30, 1924 with the fiscal year 1923. Students of the question have submitted reams of uncontrovertible statistics indicating the return to normal of foodstuff production in Europe where the bulk of our food exports are sent. The Journal has declared that low prices on grains were due to no European marwet, which, it alleged, was due to the Republican tariff law keeping out European goods. Imports from Europe for the fiscal year 1924 were considerably greater than in 1914 and so were exports to Europe. Notwithstanding the falling off in grain exports in 1924, the price of wheat and corn is steadily rising. Will the Journal please think up another reason, since we are not satisfied with the old one? FINE AND CLEAR The effort of anti-Republicans to capatilize the discontent in those areas is rapidly vanishing. Practical aid for the farmers, advocated by President Coolidge and enacted into law by Congress, is combining with suitable weather conditions to bring back prosperity with a rush. An honest man votes the way he talks—or he doesn't talk. RE-ELECT Wm. Schumacher SUPERVISOR Third Supervisor District Election Day, August 26, 1924 THOS. B. TALBERT Of Huntington Beach, CANDIDATE FOR State Senator 39th Senatorial District Primary Election, Tuesday, August 26th, 1924 INDICATES PROSPERITY If the production of motor vehicles is accepted as an indication of national prosperity, the first six months of 1924 denotes a healthy condition, according to compilations announced by the Automobile Club of Southern California. More than two million motor vehicles were turned out of factories of the country up to July 1, and this total is within one and one half per cent of the number made in the first half of 1923. One of the most favorable factors in the automobile world is the steady increase in exports which reached a new big total in May, when 18,665 passenger cars were exported and 3,800 trucks were sent to foreign countries. It is expected that the automobile market will be stronger in the fall. S. C. HARTRANET S. C. 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PHONE 26 Every telephone wire is our clothes line SAMPLE FOR CONGRESS ORANGE COUNTY TOUR or Ed P. Sample, candidate for the Republican nation, will spend three days on a speaking camin Orange County. Watch these dates: Monday, August 11th Placentia at 10 a.m. Brea at 11 a.m. LaHabra at 12 noon Garden Grove at 3 p.m. Anheim at 5 p.m. Monday, August 11th Placentia at 10 a.m. Brea at 11 a.m. LaHabra at 12 noon Garden Grove at 3 p.m. Anaheim at 5 p.m. Fullerton at 7.30 p.m. Tuesday, August 12th Huntington Beach at 10 a.m. Costa Mesa at 2.30 p.m. Newport at 3.30 p.m. Balboa at 4.30 p.m. Santa Ana at 7.30 p.m. Wednesday, August 13 Laguna Beach at 10 a.m. Tustin at 11.30 a.m. Olive at 5 p.m. Orange at 7.30 p.m. One Out and Hear the Coolidge and Richardson Candidate